Mamata Banerjee stormed the Red bastion terminating the Left Front's 34-year stranglehold on West Benga.
Trinamool Congress has won 224 seats and was leading in 1 seat, while Congress bagged 42.
On the rival side, the CPI(M), which headed the Left Front, has won 63 seats.
Mamata Banerjee, the founder and chairperson of the party and is the current Railway Minister of the Republic of India born 5 January 1955).She is noted as a firebrand orator popularly known as "Didi" – the elder sister to all her followers in West Bengal. Her orator was all about connecting with ordinary people with ordinary dreams. She is noted for her opposition to Special Economic Zones and forceful land acquisition for industrialization in West Bengal at the cost of agriculturalists and farmers.
Mamata Banerjee stormed the Red bastion terminating the Left Front's 34-year stranglehold on West Benga.
Trinamool Congress has won 224 seats and was leading in 1 seat, while Congress bagged 42.
On the rival side, the CPI(M), which headed the Left Front, has won 63 seats.
Mamata Banerjee, the founder and chairperson of the party and is the current Railway Minister of the Republic of India born 5 January 1955).She is noted as a firebrand orator popularly known as "Didi" – the elder sister to all her followers in West Bengal. Her orator was all about connecting with ordinary people with ordinary dreams. She is noted for her opposition to Special Economic Zones and forceful land acquisition for industrialization in West Bengal at the cost of agriculturalists and farmers.
Mamata Banerjee was born to Promileswar and Gayatri Banerjee on 5 January 1955, in Calcutta (now Kolkata), West Bengal, India. She grew up from a lower middle-class family and then started her political career with the Congress.
Throughout her political life she maintained an austere lifestyle and never spent money on clothes, cosmetics and jewellery and slung a cotton bag on her shoulder.
She graduated with an honours degree in history from the Jogamaya Devi College, an undergraduate women's college in southern Kolkata.[8][9] Later she earned a master's degree in Islamic History from the University of Calcutta. This was followed by a degree in education from the Shri Shikshayatan College. Later, she earned a law degree from the Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri Law College, Kolkata. was born to Promileswar and Gayatri Banerjee on 5 January 1955, in Calcutta (now Kolkata), West Bengal, India. She grew up from a lower middle-class family and then started her political career with the Congress.
Throughout her political life she maintained an austere lifestyle and never spent money on clothes, cosmetics and jewellery and slung a cotton bag on her shoulder.
She graduated with an honours degree in history from the Jogamaya Devi College, an undergraduate women's college in southern Kolkata.[8][9] Later she earned a master's degree in Islamic History from the University of Calcutta. This was followed by a degree in education from the Shri Shikshayatan College. Later, she earned a law degree from the Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri Law College, Kolkata.